Welcome to Villa Emilia (My Woodland Garden), a photography blog with a slant towards gardening and nature. An amateur gardener and photographer, I hope to share beautiful moments with you through pictures. Let me know if you like them!

13/02/2018

Published in hardback by Mitchell Beazley in association with the Royal Horticultural Society. London 2017. £ 14.99.

My opinion: Interesting and very beautiful.
Recommend? Yes!

Received as a Christmas present from an attentive family member, this wonderful book charmed me from the beginning, as can be expected. :) It's lovely to browse through the informative and very beautifully illustrated pages.

The book helps the reader to recognise similar characteristics among plants and identify which family they belong to. The families are listed in roughly evolutionary order - and I find especially interesting the sections about the origins of each family.

The plant families explored are indeed the most familiar ones, also to us (enthusiastic) amateurs. Nevertheless, there's much to learn. Text boxes also give helpful insights into how to use each family and how to make the plants thrive.

In the weeks before Christmas, I was busily - and happily - knitting with faux fur yarns. I had the idea from Päden paja blog. Päivikki had knitted a soft faux fur blanket and other lovely, fluffy items. She had used Schachenmayr Originals Brazilia yarns. I chose to use Alize yarns because easily available from a Finnish net shop. And I loved them. Unfortunately, the photos fail to do justice to the beautiful colours and textures.